Big Three Alarm Fire here the other day!
Here in May, temps have been averaging around 80-85 degrees, so needless to say, if a structure fire breaks out during the daytime, an incident can easily grow in alarms, mainly to have the additional manpower for rotation purposes to try and help eliminate (or greatly decrease symptoms of heat exhaustion, etc)
Now when you have been a
Captain at the
same firehouse for as long as i have, you don't really get a chance to socialize with the fellow firefighters from other crews, or other stations). Basically, you know pretty much everyone either by name or face- you just don't get to see one another socially that often.
But there are times that the nature of the emergency situation sets a protocol whereby many stations are called out of their regular fire districts, to assist in helping our brother firefighters to perform our duty.
My point in all of this is during this big fire the other day, while in rehab, I looked over the crowd of fireman on the scene, and never realized how many
"sly guy" fireman there were on this dept (both new rookies and old-timers) until most of them were all at one fire scene.
To the 50-60 bystanders who had pulled over to the side of the road, watching us battle this blaze, we must have all looked like we belonged to some type of
cult once our helmets were off!!
LOL....
-Cap'n Noodles-
